NOTED SCIENTIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23620, 2 April 1940, Page 4

NOTED SCIENTIST

POST IN SYDNEY NEW VETERINARY PROFESSOR RECENT WOOL" PUBLICITY WORK [FROM OUR OWN CORB.ESPOXDEMT] SYDNEY, March 27 "The man who put Queen Elizabeth and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt into bine ■wool dresses" will become tbis year professor of veterinary science at Sydney University. He is Dr. Lan Clunies Ross, Australian representative on the In ternational Wool Publicity and Research Secretariat in London. He has had a brilliant scholastic and research career, during which he was for six years director of the McMaster Institute at Sydney "University for research into animal health. When the Australian Wool Council decided to make a levy of sixpence a bale on wool and to use the results for wool research and publicity, the members chcrse Dr. Clunies Ross to go to Loudon for them. New Zealand and South Africa came into the scheme. Soon, with Dr. Clunies Ross as thß moving spirit, the secretariat had wool before the public, not only in the British Isles, but in Europe and in America. Then came the.highlight of many bright ideas. During the Royal visit to the United States last year, Dr. Clunies Ross arranged—how he did, only he could say—for Queen Elizabeth and Mrs. Rcosevelt to wear dresses of woollen material at their historic meeting in Washington on June 9. Mrs. Roosevelt wore an azure-blue dress of tho finest British Empire wool, and the Queen wore a pastel-blue woollen frock. And Dr. Clunies Ross made sure that the woi'ld knew they' wore woollen dresses. That publicity gave a fillip to the use of wool in fine dress fabrics which have been greatly favoured by fashionable dress designers recently. Dr. Clunies Ross flew to Australia early this month to confer with the Woolgrowers' Council on the British wool control methods. While here he was offered, and he accepted, the chair of veterinary science at Sydney University. He has now flown back to London, but will return in August to take up his new post.